Out of curiosity, how often do you all buy new gear and what is your budget annually? I have not bought anything except for tools in almost 2 years.
I’m all in or nothing 
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Usually about half of what I end up spending.
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I don’t usually buy anything without first selling something else. Especially in today’s market, when nothing really groundbreaking is coming out, as I hate to have overlapping/redundant gear in the studio.
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Budget
What’s my maximum credit on pay-later plans is a better question. It’ll work itself out later
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I stash away my bank account rewards (£10 - £50 a month) into a separate account for gear purchases and top it up with the proceeds of selling old gear. That’s my budget.
Have I stuck to it this year? Err, no.
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im a rich bich
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as long as ramen exist new gear will exist
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sounds like it with the many expensive gear buys each week that folks brag about lol
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gotta have priorities. Some go without home or car ownership to fund new shiny synth toys.
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5% of OP-XY
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£0.00 for the last 10 years. If I buy something new something old has to be sold.
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Well this year my budget was about -£2000.
Pretty much liquidated all my gear down to the bare minimum now, no plans to buy anything else for the foreseeable (except maybe a new Mac mini).
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Do cables count? Is audio gear that’s not used for Musik making part of it?
Overall averaged out I’d guess 200€. More this year then the last few, but most had no gear, and I did get more disposable money. Still, looking at devices for multiple thousands… If I sell all gear I’m maaaybe reaching an op-xy , but then that would be my only piece and I would have to have a ton of luck.
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That’s still budgetable.
You could for instance tag 15% of a 30K collection to sell annually, yielding a budget of 4.5K.
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True, I was just talking in terms of earnings though, in that I don’t set aside any income for gear anymore, generally.
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My budget is down to what I make on side hustles, eBay selling, helping my mate at record fairs. I spent a fair old whack in the last 18 months but tbh thinking of what I ‘need’ in the year ahead I don’t think I’ll be spending very much at all.
This post will no doubt bite my arse though.
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I’m also in the camp of gear purchases being strictly funded by selling other gear. I’ve been doing this for years and it works well for me. I very rarely buy anything new, and I don’t mind waiting years for a good deal to pop up on something I want.
This way of doing it means that my budget varies greatly year to year. More often than not I come out a little bit ahead so the annual total has increased over time.
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Going into reds is never an option for me.
I only buy if i can afford it.
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